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Patent GB-190706183-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Making Air Gas.
Inventor: KEITH JAMES
Filed: 1907-03-14
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 6183. Keith, J., and Keith, G. March 14. Carburetting.-In air-gas apparatus of the kind in which an air-compressor and a measuring-device for supplying gasoline or the like to a carburettor are simultaneously actuated, the measuring-device is operated without mechanical connexion with the gas-compressor. The measuring-device is operated by a single acting auxiliary hydraulic cylinder B, which communicates by a pipe g with the differential hydraulic cylinder A by which the air-compressor is actuated. The piston B<1> is returned by a weight C on the rocking shaft D which actuates the measuring-device, or by a spring ; or a differential auxiliary piston may be used. If a double-acting motor is used to work the air-compressor, the two ends of the main cylinder are arranged to communicate respectively with the two sides of the piston in the auxiliary cylinder.
Patent GB-190706548-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Terrestrial Globes.
Inventor: STRAUB GEORG
Filed: 1907-03-19
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 6548. Straub, G. March 19. Globes.-A terrestrial globe is fitted with electromagnetic devices for illustrating the action of gravity and for rendering its surface magnetic, so that small iron models of terrestrial objects can adhere to its exterior. The globe is built up of two hemispheres of sheet iron, connected together by an insulating-ring c. Extending from this ring halfway into the interior of the globe are a number of hollow shafts c' made of insulating-material. The inner orifices of these shafts are closed by the cores of the electro-magnets d, d', which are mounted on the wooden spindle i. These shafts illustrate gravitational attraction by drawing small iron articles into the interior of the globe. To magnetize the hemispheres forming the globe, a coil is mounted at each end of an iron core e, which joins the middle points of the hemispheres, and is cranked at the centre to clear the spindle i. Cells j, j<1>, j<2> supply current through the contacts m to the rings h<1>, g<1>, f<1>, which are connected to the various coils by wires passing up through the spindle i. A switch k is employed for breaking the various circuits, the position of the switch being indicated by marks on the globe support. To lessen the cost of production, one cell only may be employed, each coil being then operated in turn.
Patent GB-190711597-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Filed: 1907-05-17
Granted: 1908-04-02
Abstract: 11,597. Warwick Machinery Co., [General Electric Co.]. May 17. Elastic-fluid turbines.-An end-thrust balancing and exhaust-disposing device for an elastic-fluid turbine is shown in the Figure. Steam admitted through a pipe 12 acts on the balancing-disk 10. Blades 13, 14 are arranged at the periphery of the balancing-di-k and on the adjacent face of the end casing 11, and are acted on by the steam to assist the rotation of the turbine, the exhaust steam from these blades passing through an annular ejector device 15, which sinks in the exhaust steam from the turbine and discharges it into the exhaust chamber 9. The disk has fan blades 16 which assist in discharging the exhaust steam into the exhaust chamber.
Patent GB-190716089-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bottle Sealing Machines.
Inventor: WEISSENTHANNER ALFRED LOUIS
Filed: 1907-07-12
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 16,089. Weissenthanner, A. L. July 12, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901 ]. Spinning.-In a machine for applying crown cork seals to bottles &c., the sealing-rollers 20 are mounted so as to rotate in an inclined plane instead of in an horizontal plane as is usual. Each roller is mounted in a forked slide, which works in a socket 18 at the end of an arm 17, and is pressed forwards by a spring contained in the socket 18. Each of the arms 17 is mounted on a rocking spindle 15 carried by a pulley 12 and fitted at its upper end with arms 23. The pulley 12 is driven by a belt passing over guide-pulleys 4, and rotates on a spindle 7, which is free to move longitudinally but is prevented from rotating by a feather occupying a groove 8. The bottle mouth, with the capsule in position, is pressed upwards through a bell-shaped guide 37 attached to the pulley 12, against the recessed end of the spindle 7; which moves upwards against the action of a spring 31. This movement also raises the pulley 12 and causes rollers at the ends of the arms 23 to ride upon a conical cam 6<1>, thereby moving the rollers 20 through openings in the guide 37 into contact-with the rim of the sealing-cap. The springs contained in the sockets 18 ensure a yielding pressure and allow for any irregularity in the shape of the bottle mouth.
Patent GB-190718906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Baking Ovens.
Inventor: BEANES WARWICK HENRY
Filed: 1907-08-22
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 18,906. Beanes, W. H. Aug. 22. Bakers' ovens. - In steam - pipe decker ovens, separate furnaces are provided for heating the pipes of each deck, and are so arranged that increase of head-room is unnecessary. As shown in sectional plan in Fig. 2, the furnaces a, b are of half the width of the ovens. When the furnaces are arranged side by side at the same level, all the tubes are bent as shown in an horizontal plane, and in addition the tubes of the upper oven are bent vertically to bring them down to the furnace level. To obviate this vertical bending, the furnace for the upper oven may be arranged at a higher level. When several baking-chambers are arranged in one group, two sets of pipes may be heated from one furnace.
Patent GB-190719347-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: DOUGLAS JOHN
Filed: 1907-08-28
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 19,347. Douglas, J. Aug. 28. Holding out of action at low speeds.-To hold the centrifugal governor of an internal-combustion engine out of action at starting, a half nut works along a screwed spindle n turned by the cam sbaft, and when the nut reaches the end of the thread the holding-down link p<1> is released. At a predetermined low speed, a spring o<1> returns the nut on to the screwed spindle. Transmitting-mechanism.-The governor sleeve l is connected by links to a sleeve v, Fig. 6, which connects the two parts of a shaft g, the sleeve v being feather-keyed to one part and connected to the other by a quick-pitch thread. Longitudinal movement of the sleeve alters the angular rotation of the shaft driving the engine magneto.
Patent GB-190721286-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Transmitting Motion.
Inventor: KUPFERSCHMID HANS
Filed: 1907-09-25
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 21,286. Kupferschmid, H. Sept. 25. Pin-and-slot mechanism.-Relates to means for converting uniform into cyclically varying rotary motion. The uniformly rotating shaft c drives a parallel adjustable shaft k through a pin-and-slot connexion n. The shaft k is mounted in standards j carried by a slide i, which is transversely adjustable and held in place by a tapered pin passing through holes p in slide and base, or by slots and a bolt and nut. The crank-pin and slot might be replaced by a fork engaging a rib. The shaft k rotates uniformly when co-axial with the driving- shaft, and with a cyclic variation when eccentric thereto.
Patent GB-190724425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Change Speed Gears for Cycle Hubs.
Inventor: BLAIR WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-11-05
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 24,425. Blair, W. Nov. 5. Driving-mechanism.-Relates to a three-speed gear for cycles, of the type in which two epicyclic trains are enclosed within the hub and arranged so that the extreme speeds are obtained by causing one or other of the trains to become operative and the intermediate speed by locking the two trains together, the whole being arranged to provide a continuous driving connexion during the changing of the gear and a free-wheel on all speeds independently of an external one-way clutch. According to the present invention, all the gear changes are effected through the medium of pawl-andratchet devices. As shown in Fig. 1, extensions y, w of the sun-pinions 2, 3 carry a set of inwardlyprojecting pawls 13, 12 adapted to engage a slidable but non-rotatable clutch-piece 11, which is not of sufficient length to engage both sets of pawls simultaneously. The extensions also carry outwardly-projecting pawls, which engage ratchet teeth 19, 20 upon a cylindrical part 6 connecting the two internal rings X, Z. In the low-speed position, when the clutch-piece is engaged by the pawls 12, the outwardly-projecting pawls in the extension w are tilted out of the path of the ratchet teeth 19 by the clutch-piece coming under their inwardly-projecting tails. In the high-speed position, when the clutch-piece is engaged by the pawls 13, the outwardly-projecting pawls in the extension y are overrun, so that they are not provided with tails. A one-way clutch may be provided between the carrier 9 and the hub. In a modification, the non-rotatable clutch-piece is fixed upon the axle, and the sun-pinion extensions are so connected that they slide together but are capable of relative rotation, the sun-pinions being of greater length to enable them to remain constantly in mesh with their respective planet-pinions. In this form, neither set of outwardly-projecting pawls is provided with tails. Specification No. 999, A.D. 1907, is referred to. According to the Provisional Specification: (1) the driving and driven members may carry the internal rings .of gear teeth, the planet-pinions being mounted upon a cylinder having two rings of ratchet teeth ; (2) to provide a four-speed hub, the ratchet teeth on the spindle may be sufficiently long or two sets of teeth may be used so that the sun-pinions may simultaneously be held stationary.
Patent GB-190727481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Calculating Machines
Inventor: TRINKS FRANZ
Filed: 1907-12-12
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 27,481. Trinks, F. Aug, 19, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Calculating -apparatus.-In multiplying-apparatus of the pin-disk and cam-ring type, in which the totalizing-counter is movable laterally with respect to the disks, two distinct operation counters a, b are provided in the fixed casing, the first of which has transfer mechanism to enable it to deal with multiplication by combined addition and subtraction. The actuating-fingers e, f for these counters are mounted upon the same feathered sleeve g, which is upon a shaft rotated once for each rotation of the main handle, and they are displaced laterally step by step with the main counter by means of an endless chain. Transfer mechanism of the type requiring disengagement to allow of actuation is employed, and the disengagement is effected either by an inclined surface travelling with the teeth, or by a cam which rotates with the tooth. The rotation of the operation-counter spindle c to zeroize the counter may also throw the transfer parts out of gear.
Patent GB-190800190-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Preventative or Remedy for Sea-sickness
Inventor: KELSEY JAMES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-01-03
Granted: 1908-09-03
Abstract: 190. Kelsey, J. W. Jan. 3. Plasters to be applied to the stomach for the prevention of sea-sickness, consist of a mixture of powdered opium and resin plaster spread on calico. The surface of the plaster is rubbed over with camphorated oil and covered with waxed paper before the plaster is packed for sale.
Patent GB-190802431-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Building Block.
Filed: 1908-02-03
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 2431. Schlentheim, L., Huntington, F. D., and Diespeker, Ltd. Feb. 3. Faced building - blocks comprise a facing of stone slabs or earthenware or like tiles 1 and a cement, concrete, or like backing 4 held together by bonds 2, consisting of U-shaped strips of sheet metal having bent-over or corrugated ends which are secured in recesses 3 in the facing slab or tile by grouting or cement. The blocks may be formed by placing the tiles and bonds in suitable moulds and by filling up the moulds with cement, concrete, or other substance forming the backing and allowing the whole to set, with or without the application of pressure. The bonds 2 may be connected by secondary bonds 2<a>, and by using cores the blocks may be formed hollow so as to lessen the conduction of heat or sound. Other forms of bonds, such as U-shaped or right-angled rods or bars having barbed ends, may be used.
Patent GB-190804151-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Producing Theatrical Effects.
Inventor: SALLE FRANCOIS
Filed: 1908-02-24
Granted: 1908-04-02
Abstract: 4151. SallÚ, F. Aug. 17, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Reflectors.-An imitation marionette performance is produced by reflecting images of living performers j on a real stage a by two plane reflectors h. i and a concave reflector g through an aperture in a miniature stage proscenium a'. The auditorium e is kept dark while both stages are provided with means for illumination. The image may be received on a screen and comic effects may be produced by using distorting mirrors.
Patent GB-190809707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hoisting and Lowering Mechanism
Inventor: WUNDERLICH ADOLPH
Filed: 1908-05-05
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 9707. Wunderlich, A., and Hughes, G. A. May 5. Gaseliers.-In a device for suspending gas lamps from the centre of the street or other space, in which the lamp is suspended from a carriage drawn by a cable along an overhead way, means are provided whereby the travelling wheels of the carriage may be driven by the hoisting cable. The carriage a has four wheels w running on a pair of cables b and an upper wheel running on a single cable c, and the lamp is suspended by a hook on a block m arranged in a bight of the hoisting-rope e depending between sheaves p, g, mounted on the axles of the travelling wheels. The cable e is anchored at one end h, while the other end passes by an end sheave i and sheave k to the operating-winch l. The cable e runs on a loose ring o mounted in the groove of a pulley p rotating with the rear pair of travelling wheels w, and is provided with an enlarged portion r, which jams in the inclined portion of the groove in the pulley p. When the winch is operated, and the rope e is on the ring o, the load is raised or lowered, but when the portion r moves on to the sheave p, the carriage is simultaneously transferred horizontally. The forward sheave g is loose on its axle and moves between springs z fixed to the rear travelling wheels w so that, when the portion r moves off the sheave p, the springs act as a brake to the carriage. In a modificasion, the device is used with a lamp standard in which the lamp is suspended centrally over the standard and is raised and lowered at the side of the standard. The portion r may be of chain and the pulley p may be formed as a chain-wheel.
Patent GB-190813474-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Fire Buckets or other Vessels and in Lids therefor.
Inventor: FITCH CHARLES
Filed: 1908-06-24
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 13,474. Fitch, C. June 24. Water levels, indicating.-The pivoted lid of a fire bucket or other vessel is provided with a float d of wood, cork, hollow metal, &c., so that the tilt of the lid indicates the level of the liquid in the vessel. In a modification, a pivoted arm with a float attached passes through a slot in the lid, a leaf attached to the arm serving as an indicator.
Patent GB-190815551-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Upholstery of Chairs, Seats, and the like.
Inventor: SADGROVE WILLIAM HOWARD
Filed: 1908-07-22
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 15,551. Sadgrove, W. H. July 22. Spring surfaces.-In the upholstery of chairs, seats, &c., helical springs are secured to a lattice of diamond or other formation made of " expanded " metal," which is attached to the wooden or other frame of the seat by nails, staples, &c. The expanded metal is formed from a sheet of iron &c. in which slits are so cut that a lattice is produced when the sheet is expanded. The end C of the spring is passed successively under the bars EE, FF, over the bars GG, FF and under the bars GG, HH, and is formed with an open hook by which it can be engaged with the coil D immediately above it. According to the Provisional Specification, the lattice may be formed of crossed wires. Specification No. 3692, A,D. 1896, [Abridgment Class Metals, Cutting &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190820753-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Indicators for use in connection with Lavatories, Bathrooms and the like.
Inventor: GREENWOOD ARTHUR
Filed: 1909-02-18
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 20,753. Greenwood, A. Feb. 18, 1909. Indicators, " engaged " and like.-The bolt of the door operates a switch which closes the circuit through an electro-magnetic instrument which indicates at a distant point when a bath room, lavatory, &c. is engaged. When the bolt is shot it presses back a ball b, Fig. 4, and closes at f the circuit through the indicating-device. In Fig. 5 is shown a device which prevents the closing of the door if the bolt contact has been tampered with. The switch device contains two circuitbreaks in series. One of these breaks is closed by the ball device b which is operated when the door is shut, the other contact is closed when the shooting of the bolt displaces the arm l<1> of the bent lever l. The lever l also operates a stop n which, when the door is shut, enters a recess in the door. Should the lever l have been displaced in any manner before the shutting of the door, the stop n projects and prevents the door from closing. The receiving - instruments,' a number of which may be included in a single indicator, comprises solenoids which on actuation attract their cores, which operate the signalling- devices. These devices may be pivoted plates rocked into view behind apertures in the casing, or double arrow-heads which move from "disengaged" to "engaged."
Patent GB-190821913-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electrical Potential Regulators or Speed Controlling Devices.
Filed: 1908-10-16
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 21,913. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, [Siemens Schuckertwerke Ges.]. Oct. 16. [Patent of Addition to No. 14,725, A.D. 1907.] Regulating; switches. - In voltage and speed regulators of the type described in Specifications No. 14,725, A.D. 1907, and No. 19,890, A.D. 1908, the tongue is oscillated by a solenoid or magnet which acts in conjunction with a spring to exert on the tongue a constant and an intermittent force. The solenoid m connected in parallel with the exciter armature g<1> operates in conjunction with the potential coil r, arm b, spring.f, link t, and oscillating tongue h periodically to short-circuit the resistance w in the field winding n of the exciter g<1>. The intermittent pull of the magnet m is transmitted to the two points d, v, but by the action of the spring f the force exerted at the point d' is constant and equal to the mean pull at the point v<1>. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the solenoid has two cores m<1>, m<2> ; or the second core may be the frame of the first. These cores are carried in a spring-mounted stirrup k, the upper one being connected to the stirrup by a spring f. The stirrup k is also attached to the core of a potential coil r. The intermittent pull of the core m<1> aots directly upon the oscillating tongue, while the pull of the core m<2> is made practically constant by the action of the spring f. An auxiliary relay may be employed to short-circuit the resistance w, the circuit of the relay being closed by the oscillating tongue h.
Patent GB-190823052-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Chains.
Inventor: GIRAUD EUGENE FRANCOIS
Filed: 1908-10-29
Granted: 1909-09-16
Abstract: 23,052. Giraud, E. F. Dec. 9, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Making chains.-A machine for making wire chains as described in Specification No. 6910, A.D. 1900, is modified to make links of any shape by the use of removable mandrels and dies, to prevent breakage of the mandrel by the exercise of resilient action on the dies, to prevent the recoil of the wire by a cam-operated block, and to enable short links to be made. The wire passes from the rollers through a hole in a roller which is operated to feed the wire by a universally-mounted lever 59, which abuts against a stop 92 and has a vertical as well as horizontal motion given to it by a cam 13 so as first to clamp and then feed the wire. The return of the wire is prevented by clamping between a grooved block 72 and an adjustable block 70 on a cam-operated spring-returned lever 66. The wire passes through a bracket 55, abuts against an adjustable stop 91 in a lever 49, passes through a previous link and lies in grooves 53 in the ends of the jaws 52 on the levers 49, which are pivoted at 51 and actuated by cams 15, 19. The wire is cut by a knife 54, and the slide 25 which carries the mandrel 31 and bender 35, which are respectively attached to their holders by a cotter and a screwed socket, is moved back by a cam 17 acting in the yoke 24 so that the wire is bent by the mandrel between the jaws 52, which under the action of the cams 15, 19 close on the link, as shown in Fig. 1. At the same time the bending-die 35 is advanced by a cam 16 to complete the link. The cam operates the die through a rod 42 provided with a spring 47 engaging a loose collar 40, which is secured to the die-spindle and has a return spring 48. When the jaws open, the slide 25 advances and the mandrel presses the link into spring pincers 73 and is then drawn upwards against the spring 30 by a lever 97 operated by an adjustable stud 96 on a lever 95, and an intermediate piece 94 actuated by a cam 18. The pincers 73, which are pressed forward by a spring 78, are then turned through a right-angle by a lever 86, spring-returned rod 85, and lever 83 and cam 14. At the same time a wedge 87 on the lever 83 operates a spring-returned lever 88 connected adjustably to the bracket carrying the pincers, so as to lower the formed link, to allow of the insertion of the wire for forming the next link to adapt the machine for short links. The bracket has its motion limited by a screw and is returned by a spring. The mandrel and die have grooves to receive the finished link. The pincers may be removable.
Patent GB-190825654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Charting Tables.
Inventor: ISHERWOOD HAROLD
Filed: 1908-11-27
Granted: 1913-11-06
Abstract: 25,654. Isherwood, H. Nov. 27. Differential speed indicators.-Relates to means for ascertaining the speed of a chart, which is to be fed at a constant predetermined speed, during the progress of certain bearing-and-distance plotting operations thereon, by the manual rotation of a handle. A driving friction wheel 3 upon the spindle 1 rotated by the handle 2 is adapted to rotate frictionally the selected wheel 4 of a series of friction wheels of different diameters according to the speed required, any one of which can be slipped friction-tight on to a spindle 5 which is journaled loosely in a graduated dial 6 and carries rigidly an index-pointer 7. This spindle, with the dial, pointer, and friction wheel, is held in two open-topped vertical grooves 8 in the framework with the friction wheel resting upon the driving-wheel and with a projection near the periphery of the dial taking into one of the grooves to keep the dial stationary. A watch 9 with a centre seconds hand is mounted adjacent to the dial, and when the handle is turned at a speed corresponding to the friction wheel selected, the seconds hand and the indexpointer rotate at the same speed and remain parallel. To diminish the number of friction disks required, two driving-wheels 3 of different diameters may be provided upon the handlespindle 1.